Raoul Felder says: "the wife and daughter are going to end up with the entire proceeds of this house that is going to be worth much more because he blew it up."

"It's easy to forget divorce usually begins because at least one party thinks it will solve his or her problems. As writer Dorothy Dix once noted, 'Many people think divorce is a panacea for every ill. … They find out, when they try it, that the remedy is worse than the disease.'"

The American Law Institute's (ALI) "Principles of the Law of FamilyDissolution" is "arguably the most sweeping proposal for family law reformattempted in the U.S. over the last quarter century." In "Reconceiving theFamily" a group of 27 top law scholars of left and right challenge andcritique various aspects; from ALI's call to eliminate every last vestige offault (or morality) from family law, to its call to treat cohabiting couplesthe same as married couples to (in what the editor calls "unearned trust")the attempt to transfer parental rights to so-called defacto parents. Thisis a must read for anyone interested in policy, legal, or moral debates overmarriage and family law. It's a Cambridge University Press book andexpensive, but worth it.